For more than 20 years, the parallel bus interface has been the mainstream storage interconnect for most storage systems. But increasing bandwidth and flexibility demands have exposed inefficiencies ...

If you’re looking to buy or upgrade a media storage system there are numerous choices with sometimes puzzling details to consider. In past articles, we’ve discussed RAID variations, the SAN vs. NAS ...

SilverStone have once again tried to create an innovative and flexible storage product, part of the Stackable Drive Series – SD01. This time it is a high-grade hard drive ‘pad’ with a screwless design ...

SATA controllers themselves are undergoing enhancement and standardization as part of Intel's AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) initiative, which, among other things, improves SATA's power ...

PMC-Sierra’s Tachyon SPCv-12G controllers and SRCv-12G RoC (RAID-on-chip) controllers push the 12 Gbit/s SAS boundaries. SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) dominates the enterprise, which always needs more ...

The new Adaptec Series 6E RAID controller is currently targeting a storage and system builder market that currently relies on software-based RAID controllers, said Tom Flageollet, director of ...

SATA and SAS are two serial connections protocols between hosts and peripherals in desktops, servers, and other applications. The protocols are similar in terms of data rate and signal requirements ...

A standard hardware interface for storage drives. Introduced in 2003, serial attached SCSI (SAS) superseded the parallel SCSI interface and is widely used in datacenters where large numbers of drives ...

Since the output video signal from the GPU became digitized with the invention of DVI, I've started to wonder, why bother with HDMI or DisplayPort at all? The video signal, since it is digital, might ...